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Even if you attend a screening of The Skeleton Twins with an awareness of the film's subject matter, you probably won't expect to see its main characters winding and kicking along a hillside at dusk, led by the embodiment of death, prior to the closing credits. No, if America has a danse macabre, that's hardly it, even if we (like Bergman) were to pluck from history the inspiration and form of such a procession. That's just not us. One can report this with certainty, if not relief. The problem, dear friends, the worrisome thing, is that our dance might be best performed to a Starship song. So it goes, at least, in The Skeleton Twins.

Bill Heder and Kristen Wiig are Billy and Maggy, brother and sister, if not actually twins. They haven't talked in decade at the outset of The Skeleton Twins, though the siblings have arrived at similar psychic states a country apart. Maggy, pills in hand, has her suicide attempt preempted by a call to announce that her older br…

Apparently, he's a pitbull. Usually gentle, cute in his way perhaps, but not to be crossed. This Brookyn bartender Bob Saginowski (Tom Hardy) as conceived by writer Dennis Lehane in The Drop. Mr. Lehane sets up a rather simplistic case of nature versus nurture in a harsh, twilight Brooklyn where it's tough going for dog and man alike. The Drop is notable as the final work of actor James Gandolfini. He plays Bob's cousin Marv, which happens to be the name on the front of the bar he has long operated in a Brookyn neighborhood which shows no signs of gentrification. But as The Drop begins, we find out that Cousin Marv's is Marv's in name only. He was muscled out of ownership some eight years previous and is now beholden to Chechen gangsters. At the outset, speaking in an adopted accent, Hardy as the soft-spoken Bob explains that many such bars are used as drops for bag men, all the city's dirty money funneling into slots and fake kegs, ultimately finding …